Global flood hazard maps for over 200 countries will also be available in the second half of 2021.

This work was funded by the EvoFLOOD Large Grant (NE/S015728/1), a £3.7m NERC-funded research programme on the Evolution of Global Flood Hazard and Risk.

Flood risk reflects a few factors: hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, says Brenden Jongman, a disaster risk management specialist at the World Bank and one of the study’s reviewers.

The LISFLOOD-FP flood inundation model developed by the University of Bristol's Hydrology Research Group has been adopted by over 1600 NGOs, multinational companies, governments, reinsurers and more.

The interim flood-hazard map developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the Montecito debris flows “drastically increases” at-risk areas, according to Tom Fayram, deputy public ...